Chris Evans Courts Controversy After Impersonating Jimmy Savile.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431568/Radio-2-DJ-Chris-Evans-courts-controversy-Jimmy-Savile-Now-then-impersonation-live-air.html

Should we add the catch phrases once used by criminal celebrities, among the growing list of words that we can no longer say in case they cause offence?

[anneasquith]

sorry mike, I meant most people WILL know what he looked like, and I see NO reason to keep showing his picture when he is discussed .

[mikey4444]

anneasquith...then accept my apologies...I must have misread the grammar in your last post !

[anneasquith]

NO MIKE , MY POOR GRAMMAR WAS TO BLAME, :(

[andy-hughes]

I would have to say no - because it is carrying sensitivities too far in my view.

I was listening to CE at that time, and I never even registered that he was doing JS impressions on air.

I don't think it is reasonable, or indeed feasible to coral entire sections of phraseology simply because a popular celebrity falls from grace.

[Baldric]

Time to ^^^ "Shut that Door!" maybe

[Gromit]

Jimmy Saville is not a criminal. Never convicted of anything.

Stupid non story.

[youngmafbog]

But Gromit, it is now "Innocent until proven guilty by the media".

[anotheoldgit]

I do hope they don't find Rolf Harris guilty, just think about it, no more 'wobbleboard', didgeridoos, not to mention those unforgettable songs "Two Little Boys", "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport", "Jake The Peg" and "Court Of King Caractacus"

What's the country coming to?

[mikey4444]

Gromit...There is no doubt in anybody's mind that Saville was a paedophile and a serial sex offender. Surely you are not gainsaying that ?

[naomi24]

//Jimmy Saville is not a criminal. Never convicted of anything.//

Neither was Jack the Ripper.

[DTCwordfan]

From their tvs personas and, in JS's case, his boorish behaviour in public, wit the Queens Moat Glasgow at a lunch with the Lord Mayor of Weegieland, I can not abide either. However, I agree with the comments about surely the Pope is Catholic and the continual insistence of the Press to remind us of both their ugly mugs.

[zebo]

Dig my Auntie up and pillory her, she always used nowthen nowthen to us, long before he who shall not be named used it, it's a Northern thing!